I made the swich a year or two ago. It is much better I find. I leave it running in a tmux session on my server . with btop on one pane and switch to another with a split view to do work. It allows me to take a quick glance at any time while not taking the focus from what I was working on.
53ReplyOoh, it looks even better than gtop.
Edit: Why does the menu look like this?
30ReplyThat basically looks like every hollywood movie in existence
26ReplyPro tip: configure a font that doesn't show open circles for unused braille characters to have a higher priority than your current font to get better-looking graphs.
On my system, braille characters are provided by DejaVu Serif, and it was as easy as just installing the font.
22ReplyI tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop
21ReplyDoes noone use glances anymore?
14ReplyYeah, that looks very cool. Wish I could use it as my wallpaper or a widget in gnome
10ReplyOne I started using Bpytop, I couldn't go back.
10ReplyMeanwhile, every system (even Android) has good ol' top. It works.
8ReplyNice, I've tried gtop and atop before and they were pretty nice, but I usually fall back to htop because old habits die hard. I'll give this a go!
8ReplyI used for a bit, I even configured it to open in a separate monitor when booting, it was cool for a while
8Replybtop doesn't update all of the characters for me after a while if I leave it open for a long time, and eventually it stops updating altogether.
7ReplyHi Guiseppe
7ReplyCan it show each core's frequency? Or is there anything other than htop that can do that?
6ReplyI ditched all top programs on my system, because I have no use for any of them....
6ReplyI just wish there was a .deb package.
Still gonna get around to making a playbook for installing it someday. btop (and it’s predecessors) are awesome.
5ReplyI'm using lcdproc on a 20x4 characters display, it's enough to see cpu, load, mem, Network, etc
4Replyhas more empty space. Can the user change that?
4ReplyThis looks great! Thanks for the recommendation.
I like Netdata because it's web based, has a large number of metrics, you can pan/zoom the graphs, and it doesn't use much CPU power. Console UIs are nice but they're more limiting than something web-based.
4Replybottom users rise up. RIIR!
4ReplyThe nord theme on btop is blissful. It looks so good.
3ReplyIt's very attractive, but it also seems to have a minimum window size requirement that exceeds the "stack" in my "master and stack."
It's great to use if you need a dashboard to track issues, but for a quick look at running processes, I think I'll stick with htop.
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2ReplyPurely on aesthetics, I find bashtop nicer, but I couldn't get it on my server.
I often use glances for general monitoring. 2Replyps -aux | grep yourmom
2Replywhy ? Why do you feel the need to have process monitoring displayed all the time?
-4ReplyBoth are useless toys for newbie sysadmins who think their job is sitting and looking at list of processes.
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